Chipmunk food (safe and unsafe)

[pitkin03]

I have seen a lot of threads listing food for chipmunks and thought maybe we could compile a single list that could maybe used as reference for everyone.  I am happy to start it and update it so all the relevant info stays within the first post.  Maybe everyone could list what they give their chips that they know is safe to eat and also we could list what is unsafe to help people avoid feeding their chipmunks the unsafe foods.  Maybe something like below that is updated for the benefit of everyone.??

SAFE FOODS
apple,
baby sweet corn,
banana chips
banana,
blackberries,
blue berries
Boiled Eggs
Broccoli
brown bread crust
Butternut Squash leave the pips
carrots
Cat food
Cereal
Cheese (wenslydale the kind with fruit in)
cherry tomatoes
Coconut
corn on the cob
cranberry+blueberry juice
Cucumber
Curry
Cuttlefish
Daises
dandelions
Dog food
Grapes
hazel nuts
honey
honeydew melon
ice cream
jam
Lettuce
mandarins/clemitines
mango,
Meal worms
Melon (any type leave a few pips for them)
Millet Spray
monkey nuts
nectarines,
orange,
pasta,
Pea Pods
peanut butter
peanuts
peanuts in yogurt
pear
peas
pecans
pesto
pine nuts
pizza
pumpkin seeds
raisins,
raspberries,
Raw beef mince (Fly size balls, very small)
Rose petals
Rusk Biscuits
shelled peanuts
small amounts of chocolate
soup (oxtail)
strawberries
sunflower seeds
tea...  all mad I know, but they are addicts for this stuff!!
toast with jam
tomatoes
walnuts
Wax Worms
Yogurt


UNSAFE FOODS
Cherry stones
Peach stones

[jennyb]

Hi, sunflower seeds and peanuts are safe but too many can cause Metabolic Bone Disease (MBD) and cause them to get fat

[alan]

Safe Food;   small amounts of chocolate
                  ice cream
                  tomatoes
                  soup (oxtail)
                  curry
                  tea...  all mad I know, but they are addicts for this stuff!!

[judyw]

Safe food

Broccoli, peas,
carrots, baby sweet corn, corn on the cob (mine love it cooked)
banana, nectarines, mango, pear
peanuts in yogurt
pasta, pizza
toast with jam
pesto
brown bread crust
orange, cranberry+blueberry juice
dandelions


Only few that we know its safe.

[pitkin03]

Hi, sunflower seeds and peanuts are safe but too many can cause Metabolic Bone Disease (MBD) and cause them to get fat

Good information, I will give it a few days for people to add to the list and I will sort the list out and add that info into the list.

[chris]

MDB is a threat to chips but if they get a balanced diet  of dry food fresh food and live food it shouldn't become a problem.  I feed my chips a regular diet of chipmunk mix with fresh fruit and veg  and a weekly injection of cream filled bugs

Not good if your a bug but great if you are a chippy lol

[Gilly]

Tea? Pizza? 

Cream filled bugs Chris! your chippies are spoilt lol

Tomatoes and boiled eggs (cold) balance out well against nuts.

[chris]

Its strawberry season go to your local PYO and collect a punnet for the chips they love them, then soon after it will become  raspberry and blackberry PYO they love those too
And if you live near a wheat field pick fresh wheat and feed them that. Lots of free treats if you live in a rural area

[chris]

Wax worms are a favourite and I admit they get that treat once a week but they my babies so they eat better than us
 

[chris]

well we don't exactly eat waxworms I meant in comparison 

[kittycat2808]

my two like
apple,
pear,
raspberries,
blackberries,
grapes,
banana,
strawberries,
raisins,

they love hazlenuts and shelled peanuts usually the first things they go for  

they also like millet sprays occasionally
and also little bit of rusk biscuit (i usually soak it in a bit of milk and pre boiled water (half and half) first to stop it swelling to much in their bellies) only a treat occasionally they seem to love it (my son not so much, he wants his biscuit lol) hipp do a full organic one in little fingers so all natural and no need to worry about additives. they are so much cheaper and smaller than farleys rusks

frozen bell peppers run under water to take the instant cold off (mine only seem to eat the green ones) love it when its hot
baby sweetcorn

i have been wondering does any one know if sweet potato and butter nut squash are ok for them?

[chris]

you shell their peanuts? Let them work for the treat lol

[kittycat2808]

i mean ones in their shells lol monkey nuts as they are know round here lol

[chris]

known as monkey nuts here as well, I know I live in a really remote part of mainland uk (Lincolnshire) but its a great area for getting free food for chips. But don't tell the farmer 

[DayleC]

mine like tomatoes...lettuce....cucumber.....rose petals...nasturtium flowers....pea pods ....and I've just discovered they like Mcvities digestive biscuits